Met Office issues new snow and ice weather warnings for Greater Manchester

Two new yellow weather warnings for snow and ice in Greater Manchester have been issued by the Met Office.

An amber snow warning is already in place for the region today (Thursday March 9) until 12 tomorrow (Friday 10). The less severe yellow warnings are in effect from 3pm on Saturday (March 11) until 6am on Sunday (March 12).

The forecaster warned the wintry weather is likely to cause travel delays on roads and disruption to rail and air travel. Bus and train services may also be delayed or cancelled, with some road closures and longer journey times possible.

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Traffic will already be increased in the city centre this weekend, with road closures and engineering work on the Metrolink taking place, as well as gigs at the Arena, a huge parade and Manchester United playing at home.

The yellow snow and ice warnings over the weekend also extend to parts of Scotland, North West England, North East England, the East Midlands, the West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber.

The Met Office said: "An area of low pressure moving in from the southwest through Saturday night into Sunday will bring a band of precipitation across much of the UK. The forward edge of this is expected to fall as a transient band of snow which may bring accumulations over higher ground, before turn increasingly to rain from the south through the night.

"However, for some places in the north of this area, this band may become slow-moving and snow may persist into Sunday morning. For much of the area, accumulations likely to be confined to elevations above 200m, with 2-5 cm possible, 5-10cm possible above 400m.

"These accumulations likely to begin melting